Book - Non-fiction and CD. Edited by Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton. 2007.
Book and CD provide a candid view of Supreme Court deliberations; includes MP3 recordings.
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A group of students were suspended at Southwest Texas State University for peacefully protesting the Vietnam War.
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mildred and Richard Loving in the historic Loving v. Virginia case.
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A group of students wore black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive ban.
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In 1951, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed seven Black men despite a national campaign in their defense.
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Harriet Elizabeth Brown, a teacher from Maryland, sued for equal pay for Black teachers and won the case.
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Nine young African Americans, were falsely charged with rape and collectively served more than 100 years in prison.
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The Supreme Court declared in horrific Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling that "Any person descended from Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of U.S."
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281 Africans aboard the Antelope ship were brought to Savannah by the U.S. Treasury.
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